NSOI is a U.S. government effort to enhance international assistance to combat smuggling of nuclear and radioactive materials.
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The U.S. government greatly appreciates the partnership of the governments and organizations depicted below who have joined with us to combat the threat of nuclear smuggling by supporting one or more of the assistance projects developed by NSOI. We invite others to join this common effort to address this most significant menace to global security.
Click on the flag for details of each country’s or organization’s contribution.
European Union / European Commission
Fissile material -- highly-enriched uranium (HEU) or weapon-grade plutonium -- is the critical ingredient in building a nuclear weapon. Most experts agree that terrorists are not able to produce fissile material, but a reasonably sophisticated terrorist organization could make a crude nuclear weapon, or improvised nuclear device (IND), if it stole or acquired a sufficient quantity and quality of such material. Therefore, combating smuggling of weapons-usable nuclear materials is vital to preventing terrorists from acquiring nuclear weapons.